{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-329/annex/division-3/division-3.3/division-3.3.1/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-329/annex/division-3/division-3.3/division-3.3.1/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2019/329",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/329 of 25 February 2019 laying down the specifications for the quality, resolution and use of fingerprints and facial image for biometric verification and identification in the Entry/Exit System (EES)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-329",
  "path": "annex/division/3/division/3.3/division/3.3.1/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Using fingerprints",
  "text": "For purposes other than law enforcement, CS-EES shall perform biometric identifications and searches either with four fingers flat, or with four fingers flat combined with the live captured facial image and only on biometric data which meet the applicable quality thresholds. The biometric identification shall be performed using the fingerprint data with at most one image per finger type (NIST identification 1 to 10).\nFingerprint data from the following fingers shall be used: the index finger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger. Fingerprints from the same hand shall be used, starting with the right hand.\nThe fingerprint data shall be correctly labelled as to which finger it relates. In cases of permanent or temporary physical impossibility, the fingerprints shall always be identified accordingly as specified by the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011: Update 2015 standard (or newer version) and the remaining fingers, if any, shall be used.\nIn the case where identifications are performed in a scope other than border checks, the CS-EES shall be capable to accept rolled fingerprints from authorities with access to EES allowed to use also rolled fingerprints under a different European regulation. If the authority performs an identification with fingers of both hands, the CS-EES shall perform two identifications, one with the fingers of the right hand and one with the fingers of the left hand.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Idem."
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/329/annex/division/3/division/3.3/division/3.3.1/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:48.870802+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}